Is it normal to get caught in work’s momentum?

I spent my hours, days, if not years, living unconsciously, just being carried away by work. Wake up, there is something in the inbox. There is something in the calendar. I do it, we set goals, and there is a lot of work that just carried me instead of me taking a deep breath, stepping back and saying, ‘Okay, no, let's pause for a second. Let's stop all this. Let's pause for a second, let's stop all this chaos, and let's actually ask questions about what needs to be done in the first place.’

And this is a skill. This is a skill that I wish I learned earlier, and this is a skill that I only learned when I saw it in other people, it was not something which was role-modelled for me in my family or at university.